“So I stopped… I stopped and I waited. I waited for a moment longer.” He knew his mind would never again be free to romp like the mind of God. That falling in love would change his destiny… Forever. “And then I just let myself go…” She blossomed for him like a flower. An incarnation was complete. “And it was a great mistake for a man like me to fall in love… I’m still young, I could still be a great man if I could forget that I once lost her… But my life, old sport, my life…. my life has got to be like this…” He pointed to the infinite expanse of stars. “It’s got to keep going on.”

“And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby’s wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night.

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And one fine morning——